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INSAT-3DR, with a designed mission life of ten years, will provide service continuity to earlier meteorological missions and further augment the capability to provide various meteorological, search and rescue services.

ISRO's GSLV-F05 carrying INSAT-3DR leaves a trail of smoke as it takes off

GSLV-F05 also marked a hat-trick of success for the indigenously developed complex cryogenic upper stage (CUS) after GSLV-D5 (January 2014) and D6 (August 2015) missions

ISRO's GSLV-F05 carrying INSAT-3DR leaves a trail of smoke

The 2014 success had propelled India into the elite group of countries boasting of the homegrown complex cryogenic engine and stage after twin failures in 2010

ISRO's GSLV-F05 carrying INSAT-3DR takes off

A jubilant ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar patted his team of scientists for "another achievement" even as he said the satellite was placed in the orbit

After the INSAT-3DR is placed in orbit, scientists at Master Control Facility at Hassan, Karnataka would perform the initial orbit raising manoeuvres and later place it in circular geostationary orbit.